We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.